It's hard to think of an action more damaging to American greatness, or insulting to American freedom, than cutting off cancer research to punish a university for failing to align politically with the current government.
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As an adoptee I've had to learn that one's worth is not a currency to be bartered for belonging.
You are not on Earth to be everybody’s savior, secretary, sounding board, therapist, mama, mule, or messiah.
You are not a bottomless well of “strength” for people to sip from when they’re thirsty and then walk away when they’re full. Your worth is not in your labor, your silence, your forgiveness, your caretaking, your ability to bend without breaking, or your capacity to carry what no one …
I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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Hi guys! Kinda nervy, but I just posted my first essay on here! It’s an essay about my take on stereotypes placed on the African American community and where they came from. Please check it out if you’re interested, I would greatly appreciate it!
The Truth Beneath the Stereotypes: A Black Woman’s Reflection on Race, Reality, and Resilience
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What happens when judgment is outsourced to a system that cannot weep, repent, or discern the heart?
And what does faithfulness look like in a world where the righteous must live by something more than code?
Habakkuk and the Question of Justice in the Machine Age
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I’ve spent most of the past day texting with friends and loved ones in Los Angeles. So many people I know have lost their homes or been evacuated. Others are waiting with go bags, terrified they’ll get the call next. Another, a public health and disasters expert just told me this is expected to become the costliest fire event in human history. An insurance crisis is going to ruin even more lives in California in the aftermath of this tragedy. I am sick to my stomach and raging at a country and a world that would prefer to protect corporations and billionaires rather than directly confront the carbon threat and invest in infrastructure that will allow us to survive the nightmarish future our leaders have wrought for us.
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At first, I thought it was an ice sculpture left by the roadside... then it moved! So beautiful.
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In 2012, John Unger was captured floating his dog to sleep in Lake Superior. Schoep had developed arthritis & had weeks to live. John responded by taking him to the lake every night to ease the pain in his final days.
